Set to appear by Mother’s Day, this new prayer was commissioned by the USCCB.
Archive for March 28th, 2012
Blessing for an unborn child
Mar 28
In Pope Benedict XVI’s theology, the Eucharist is a sacrifice because it is the sacrifice of the cross, made accessible to human beings forever through the eucharistic prayer. It is also a meal, however, precisely because the divine sacrifice completes itself in a community meal that also obliges Christians to ethical service and communal love.